The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c25.27

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Both Pimenta and du Jarric relate that, when Achyutappa retired to Srirangam, he was faithfully “accompanied in that devotion by his seventy wives, all which were to be burned in the same fire with his carkasse. Hee had bestowed five thousand pieces of gold in sweet woods against that day” ³. Anquetil du Perron states that Achyutappa’s death took place about 1600 ⁴. And Fr. Coutinho, writing from Chandragiri on July 17th, 1600, reports: “This (Achyutappa Nayaka) died lately. His corpse, along with 370 wives still alive, was burnt in a big fire of sandal-wood” ⁵